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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: American Spirit who wrote (51223)10/24/2000 9:13:50 AM
From: Rambi  Read Replies (1) of 769667
 
NOt only were you unable or unwilling to provide a factual basis for your claims and ignored the honest efforts of those who did, you fell back on insults-- the mark of someone who has no real intellectual defense.

Despite the fact that people posted articles regarding the history of deinstitutionalization, facts about the program itself, actual statistics that showed the average stay in a mental hospital decreased by half in the 70s and continued decreasing into the 80s, and my own posts about being part of the program that physically moved these people out of hospital and into the community in the 70s, you continue to blindly insist that Reagan caused the problem.

Did you even bother to read the supporting material posted by KLP or the post by nihil regarding the decrease in the normal stay of patients in mental hospitals in the 70s and 80s?
From 1972 to 1980, days of hospitalization in non-federal psychiatric hospitals per thousand population fell from 661 to to 295. It fell to to 201 in 1989

Not one of us tried to claim that Reagan "fixed" the problem--the ACLU made sure that no one could in many instances-- but the facts are there regarding the implementation of a program that was destined to fail long before he took office. This was my point, and it continues to be. It is not a defense of Reagan; it is an insistence that facts not be distorted out of ignorant partisanship.

It's stunning to find a mind so closed that it will even deny history when it doesn't conform to its own cherished chosen beliefs. I now understand the meaning of exercise in futility.
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